Posted on 10/19/2015 11:26:05 PM PDT by Mariner
A new world of weed is coming to the largest marijuana marketplace on the planet.
Gov. Jerry Brown this month signed regulations he said would bring “robust controls” to govern California’s long untamed medical marijuana industry, with clear standards for “local government, law enforcement, businesses, patients and health providers.”
His signature also may bring something else: a decidedly robust new era for cannabis commerce. By 2018 or sooner, marijuana businesses – from small pot farms to cannabis superstores – effectively can begin earning legal profits under the nation’s most diverse state licensing scheme for pot.
Until now, California’s vast pot economy has flourished with nebulous state guidelines enacted by lawmakers after voters in 1996 approved Proposition 215 to legalize marijuana for medical use. Purportedly nonprofit medical marijuana providers currently take in millions of dollars under a legal notion of patients cultivating and sharing cannabis in collectives with other medical users.
Now marijuana is set to be a regulated business activity, governed as a unique agricultural product in an industry that will be transparent and, soon, unabashedly for-profit.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
They're doing $1bil per year in the legal "medical" business.
The 2016 initiative for recreational pot will certainly pass.
Overall, even though CA generates the most agricultural revenue in the nation, pot is it's largest and most valuable crop. Probably $10bil per year.
When the state legalizes, no other state will be able to resist the tide.
As long as California gets their cut anything is for sale.
The state already taxes every other agricultural commodity.
The point is?
“The point is?”
Serves as a warning to neighboring states allowing the borders to be sealed as in the case of the “Bum Blockade” initiated by the City of Los Angeles at the Needles, California border early last century. Be assured as we devolve things will get worse.
George Soros has won. All the money he spent to get dope legal has paid off.
You can be sure he will get a good return on his investment.
And screw-up and make dependent the coming generations.
Yes, I believe several states will set up checkpoints along the interstates at their borders. And they'll confiscate tons of pot and put dozens in jail.
But, eventually most will succumb as the deluge continues unabated. There will just be too much and too many people involved to police it.
Police? Puhleeze! Vigilance Committees would be the order of the day.
You would be fighting with the people of your own state.
They would be the importers.
And you'd have to look in the trunk of every car.
Or shut the roads entirely.
You would be as successful as those who tried to stop the bootleggers.
National marijuana prohibition is dead.
AMERICAN LOGIC 101: Tobacco smoke BAD. Marijuana smoke GOOD.
Up is down, black is white, water floats and a whole host of other upside down logic from the liberals.
Ping!
Incredible how coordinated major developments seem to be these days.
Jerry Moonbeam decriminalizes pot the same day a trial balloon is floated by the UN to call for global drug decriminalization...
UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all ...
www.independent.co.uk/ news/ uk/ home-news/ u... Proxy
18 hours ago ... The UN may be about to call on the governments of all countries to end the “war on drugs” and decriminalise the use and possession of all
A stoned western world that’s gone to pot will likely make for easier pickings for Religion of Peace expansion.
The addictive mind-altering legal drug alcohol hasn't ruined us, and anyone who really wants pot can get it already ... the only real issue is whether legal regulated businesses or murderous cartels will reap the profits.
In my best Foghorn Leghorn voice imitation, “It was a joke son. A joke.” Just as much as any attempt to control a black market of goods could be. Irony is being stopped at the California border and having a drone ask if I have fruits or vegetables in my vehicle when California seems to be loaded with both. Yeah, I know, they’re worried about bugs.
Within a year after having moved into our housing development we were surprised to find a four-point uniformed blockade of the neighborhood and a plethora of law enforcement personnel moving bales of marijuana from a house to a 2 1/2 ton truck. Stash house. A rental. Wetbacks and dope are a major problem here and law enforcement is incapable of putting a stop to those problems and many others.
No, no rose colored glasses for this fella.
What region of the state?
There’s already too much any many people involved to police it. Most drug users go their entire time without police interaction. You really need to be unlucky or stupid to get caught.
What was always funny about the med-fly checkpoints is that the bordering states couldn’t just check traffic from CA (violates equal protection). So they had to checkpoint every border. Which is a big part of why AZ dropped it.
“Marijuana smoke GOOD.”
Not for everyone. Edibles rock!!!
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